Barça basketball will not be able to count until 2020 with the contest of the French base Thomas Heurtel , operated on Monday of the partial rupture of the patellar tendon in the left knee, produced during the concentration for the World Cup in China with his selection and that will be out for five months .

"We inform that the player Thomas Heurtel has been successfully intervened with the partial rupture of the patellar tendon of the left knee. The surgical intervention has been carried out by Dr. Sonnery-Cottet, in Lyon (France), under the supervision of the Medical Services of the Club. The low sports time will be around five months, "said the Catalan team on Monday.

The game director, one of the most outstanding players last season in the Svetislav Pesic team , had to leave last week the concentration with his team for this injury and in the French Federation they were already talking about "several weeks" of low, although after the passage through the operating room the worst omens have been confirmed.

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